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Story: Kaumātua – Māori elders

Kaumātua and rūnanga: Waiōmio

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Kaumātua and rūnanga: Waiōmio

This group is outside the whare rūnanga (building where the village council sat) of Te Ruki Kawiti in Waiōmio, in the 1880s. Kaumātua attended rūnanga (village councils).

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Rawinia Higgins and Paul Meredith, Kaumātua – Māori elders – Kaumātua and leadership, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28367/kaumatua-and-runanga-waiomio (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Rawinia Higgins and Paul Meredith, published 11 April 2011.